There is a lot of disagreement at our Seder about what counts as kosher for Passover. Lauren takes the strict, and Biblically questionable, view that rice and corn are treyf. The corn prohibition in particular requires a fairly strained interpretation since there was no corn in the Jewish world until after 1492 (unless you believe that the native Americans really were a lost tribe). Nonetheless, if you've read Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemna or Greg Critser's Fatland, you may think a prohibition against corn (or at least a prohibition against high-fructose corn syrup) is a good concept--and one that should last for more than eight days a year.
It's good to know that Coca-Cola makes a Kosher-for-Passover Coke that is made with cane sugar rather than high-fructose corn syrup.
The Woelk-Durst household, by the way, subscribes to a Gestalt theory of Passover kosherness. Flat things, such as tortillas, are permissible.
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The Woelk-Durst household, by the way, also subscribes to the well-known theory that rice, rice krispies, rice kripsy treats (known well before Columbus and sold by Talmudic students in some parts of what is known as the Crispy Crescent) to raise money for their cheders, since no one has heard of The Cheder Olympics, except for fans of people who like cheese and can’t spell very well), and almost anything that can be eaten without another member of the family witnessing you, is also kosher-for-Passover.
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